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One of these towns is Fontainebleau, where she first went when she left Paris. I have charged them to be very circumspect in obtaining all the information they can concerning her movements. Her mysterious retreat must be in one of these three localities, so I watch them all. I told them to direct all my letters to the Poste-Restante.
I'll give you a few verses of it: "Heavens! some names ought to be suppressed! This is getting to be intolerable, when a man has the misfortune to be named Extasboriech, he ought not to have his letters sent to the Poste-Restante! If I were afflicted with such a name, I would have the Keeper of the Seals to change it."
These operations, without which the world they have such a large share in could not go on for ten minutes, are left to us men. And then we are chided for being coarse. This is a refined objection but does not seem fair. Another little girl or perhaps the same little girl wrote to him in Cordova, "I hope Poste-Restante is a nice place, and that you are very comfortable." Woman again!
The clouds of whirling dust became very bad, however, and I was compelled to goggle, while the talc-fronted veil adequately protected my sweet-faced travelling-companion. At Douai she descended and entered the post-office herself, returning with a telegram and a letter. The latter she handed to me, and I found it was addressed in my name, and had been sent to the Poste-restante.
No doubt you think this a very simple, easy thing to do, but first listen a moment: I felt the "Star" gradually sinking under me near the Malouine Islands, the sixty-eighth degree of latitude kept me a prisoner in its sea of ice at the South Pole; I passed two consecutive days and nights on board the Esmerelda, between fire and inundation; and if I were to extract the quintessence of the agonies experienced upon these three occasions it could never equal the intense torture I suffer at the Poste-Restante.
The Loggia, which took its new name from the Swiss lancers, or lanzi, that Cosimo I kept there he being a fearful ruler and never comfortable without a bodyguard is now a recognized place of siesta; and hither many people carry their poste-restante correspondence from the neighbouring post office in the Uffizi to read in comfort.
Oscar's next words enlightened me. "Have you tried the Poste-Restante?" he asked. What could I possibly have been thinking of! Of course, she had lost my letter. Of course, the whole house would be upset in looking for it, and the rector would silence the uproar by ordering his wife to try the Poste-Restante. How strangely we had changed places!
Pisa Hotel Victoria Pisan weather The poet Shelley Historic Pisa Lung 'Arno San Stefano di Canalia Cathedral Baptistery Leaning Tower Campo Santo The divine angels The great chain of Pisa Leghorn Smollett's grave Poste-restante A sweet thing in Beggars Ugolino's Tower Departure for Rome.
If, as the saying is, "Homer sometimes nods" why not Madame Pratolungo? "I never thought of the Poste-Restante," I said to Oscar. "If you don't mind going back a little way, shall we inquire at once?" He was perfectly willing. We went downstairs again, and out into the street. On our way to the post-office, I seized my first opportunity of making Oscar give me some account of himself.
The woman who kept it brought a card in Mrs. Mackenzie's frank handwriting, announcing Mr. James Binnie's address was "Poste-restante, Pau, in the Pyrenees," and that his London agents were Messrs. So-and-so. The woman said she believed the gentleman had been unwell. The house, too, looked very pale, dismal, and disordered.
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